Improvement in clothes-washers



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Improvement in Clothes WaSherS.

No. 124,844, Patented Mareh19, 1872.

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WALTER I. MILLER AND BRADFORD O. IRONS, OF LINESVILLE, PENNSYL- VANIA,ASSIGNORS OF ONE-THIRD OF THEIR RIGHT TO ROBERT P.

MILLER, OF SAME PLACE.-

IWIPROVEMENT IN CLOTHES-WASHERS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 124,844, dated March19, 1872.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that we, WALTER I. MILLER and BRADFORD O. IRONS, ofLmesville, in the county of Crawford and State of Pennsylva" nia, haveinvented a new and valuable Improvement in Clothes-Washers; and we dohereby declare that thefollowin g is a full, clear, and exactdescription of the construction and operation of the same, referencebeing had to the annexed drawing making a part of this specification,and to the letters and figures of reference marked thereon.

Figure 1 of the drawing is a representation of a transverse verticalsection of my invention. Fig. 2 is a bottom end view ofthe same.

This invention has relation to clothes-washers; and consists in thehereinafter-described novel construction of a hand-plunger for beat; ingthe clothes, in which is combined an airchamber, a series of airtubes,and a valve, operating in the manner hereinafter specified.

In the drawing, A represents a conical plunger-head, provided with aseries of open spouts, or, depending from its bottom, and encircled by aflange, B also, provided with a spout, b, rising from its apex, andcontaining a valve, 0. The'head Aincloses an air-space, 01, toward whichthe valve opens, and into which it admits air when the plunger islifted. The tubes at b communicate with the air-chamber in the'mannershown. A long spout, E, used as a handle, fits over the tube 1).

The device is, used in beating the clothes which are placed in a tubwith water and suds. The edges of the tubes and the flange serve thesame purpose as a wa sh-board or corrugated d'asher.

When the plunger is raised the air passes into the chamber d, the valveF opening to admit it. When the plunger is let fall the air tubes intoand among the clothes, causing the water to thoroughly impregnate them,and to. receive sufficient agitation to extract the dirt. The loweredges of the tubes a and flange B should be rounded sothat the clothesmay not be cut or torn.

The valve is secured to a removable block, F, which may be taken outwhenever it is desired to clean the air-chamber, wherein dirt will, intime, accumulate.

What we claim as our invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent,is-

The combination of the hollow head A, tubes at b, flange B, spout E, andvalve 0, substantially as described.

In testimony that we claim the above we have hereunto subscribed ournames in the presence of two witnesses.

BRADFORD OVINGTON IRONS. WALTER IRWIN MILLER. Witnesses:

R. I. MILLER, W. D. BOND.

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